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Linux From Scratch, Book 8.1<br />
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Notes On Build Steps and Process<br />
2017 Autumn and Winter
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== [[#top|^]] Overview ==
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This wiki article contains notes on build steps and process detailed in [http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ Linux From Scratch book 8.1].  This work spurred by Ted's finding that Robert Landley's Aboriginal Linux project is defunct and no longer developed as of spring or summer 2017.  Robert had gotten a compressed and simplified Linux build framework down to seven packages, which could build all the necessary tools including themselves, to create a base Linux system.  On this base system then a user could further tailor and develop custom software to fit a wide variety of use cases, including embedded system uses and cross-compiling based system uses.

In absence of a supported Aboriginal Linux, Ted here working through 'Linux From Scratch' to build a system crossed-compiled for the ARM architecture, with goal of buildng complete working Linux OS to run on RaspberryPi development boards.  At same time Ted looking to build minimal system and tool chain, offering environment in which to compile and to cross-compile C and C++ programs.  



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Notes here begin with some useful, initially found links to [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ LFS home page] of Gerard Beekman et al:


*  [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Linux From Scratch project homepage]
*  [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/index.html LFS project index]
*  [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter02/hostreqs.html LFS host requirements]

*  [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter02/stages.html LFS chapter 2 build stages . . .]


Linux From Scratch project observes Linux Standard Base (LSB) requirements.  These requirements include,

*  [https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ binutils]


Cross-compiling Linux system from scratch . . .

*  [http://trac.clfs.org/ Cross Linux From Scratch]


Linux from Scratch for RaspberryPi target system . . .

*  [http://intestinate.com/pilfs/beyond.html Linux From Scratch (LFS) for RaspberryPi]


Some Linux programs and utilities, services worth studying further, for better understanding of system and networking:

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<li> grub, EFI and UEFI<br />
<li> iproute, routef and routel, IPV4 routine tables<br />
<li> util-linux-2.30.1 . . . chapter 6.66, lots of utilities here!<br />
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=== [[#top|^]] First mount and build steps ===

- 2017-90-18 MON -

LFS book release 8.1, chapter 2.4 talks about typical and "convenience" partitions which are often or sometimes created for Unix and Linux systems.  Ted's notebook of LFS work past two weeks not on hand, but going from memory and cfdisk partition list which lacks labels and mount points, here are the partitions Ted created first time stepping through chapter 2:


<i>Figure x - initial LFS 8.1 partitioning choices, using 8GB root directory:</i>

<pre>

     Name              Flags            Part Type       FS Type                 [Label]               Size (MB)         mount point
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     sdb1              Boot              Primary        ext4                                             106.93            /boot
     sdb5                                Logical        ext4                                            7682.42            /
     sdb6                                Logical        swap                                            1003.49 ( not applicable to swap partition )
     sdb7                                Logical        ext4                                           10001.95            /home
     sdb8                                Logical        ext4                                           20003.89            /opt
     sdb9                                Logical        ext4                                           50001.48            /usr/src
     sdb10                               Logical        ext4                                           50001.48            /var
                                         Pri/Log        Free Space                                     21240.29      *


</pre>


Started working through LFS 8.1 book using above partitions but found __libc or glibc build step__ required beyond 8GB space during a testing phase, and so __changed the partitions__ to create a larger root partition as shown in next figure:

<i>Figure x - LFS 8.1 exercise, partition choices draft two:</i>

<pre>

                                      cfdisk (util-linux 2.20.1)

                                         Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
                                  Size: 160041885696 bytes, 160.0 GB
                        Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 19457

     Name           Flags         Part Type     FS Type              [Label]            Size (MB)
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     sdb1           Boot           Primary      ext4                                       106.93     
     sdb5                          Logical      ext4                                     18498.66
     sdb6                          Logical      Linux                                     1003.49
     sdb7                          Logical      Linux                                    10001.95
     sdb8                          Logical      Linux                                    20003.89
     sdb9                          Logical      Linux                                    50001.48
     sdb10                         Logical      Linux                                    60425.52    *




      [ Bootable ]  [  Delete  ]  [   Help   ]  [ Maximize ]  [  Print   ]  [   Quit   ]
      [   Type   ]  [  Units   ]  [  Write   ]

                             Quit program without writing partition table

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Per chapter 2.4 comments on convenience partitions, Ted not creating a partition for either /usr nor /tmp.  Ted creating /opt for software which falls outside of Debian and Ubuntu package lists, such as LPCXpresso and LTSpice.

Working through LFS stable release book or instructions, at end of chapter two page titled chapter 2.7 LFS book calls for first mount of newly created system-to-be partition.  Ted using ext4 type journaled file system.  Somewhere in or about chapter five, further mounts of other file systems of the new system are needed.  Here are key mounting steps needed to proceed with work at end of LFS book 8.1 chapter 2 and int chapter 3 and onward.  These mount steps depend that environment variable $LFS set to /mnt/lfs . . .


<pre>

    $ # From LFS 8.1 chapter 2.7, mounting the new file system:

    $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/sdb5 /mnt/lfs


    $ # From LFS 8.1 chapter 6.2, preparing virtual kernel file systems:

    $ sudo mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev
    $ sudo mount -vt proc proc $LFS/proc
    $ sudo mount -vt sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys
    $ sudo mount -vt tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/run

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Ted noting specific mount steps as root partition at 7.7GB too small to permit chapter 6 builds.  Ted learning <code>parted</code> disk partitioning utility in order to resize /dev/sdb5 root partition of 2017 September LFS project build.  There appears to be some good notes on using a tool named <code>resize2fs</code> at the AskUbuntu forum page https://askubuntu.com/questions/390769/how-do-i-resize-partitions-using-command-line-without-using-a-gui-on-a-server.  But neither parted for resize2fs alone were the answer, Ted uses [[resize_partition_and_ext4_file_system|cfdisk, e2fsck and resize2fs]] to achieve a partition and corresponding file system size increase.

After building first package <code>binutils-2.29</code> the directory <code>/tools</code> holds directories and files in the following command line snippet of figure x.  Bin-utils 2p29 took about 5 mins 30 seconds to build:


<i>Figure x - looking at results of LFS first build step, building bin-utils 2.29:</i>

<pre>

lfs@localhost:~$ ls /tools
bin  i686-lfs-linux-gnu  share

ted@localhost:~$ ls /tools/bin
i686-lfs-linux-gnu-addr2line  i686-lfs-linux-gnu-elfedit  i686-lfs-linux-gnu-nm       i686-lfs-linux-gnu-readelf
i686-lfs-linux-gnu-ar         i686-lfs-linux-gnu-gprof    i686-lfs-linux-gnu-objcopy  i686-lfs-linux-gnu-size
i686-lfs-linux-gnu-as         i686-lfs-linux-gnu-ld       i686-lfs-linux-gnu-objdump  i686-lfs-linux-gnu-strings
i686-lfs-linux-gnu-c++filt    i686-lfs-linux-gnu-ld.bfd   i686-lfs-linux-gnu-ranlib   i686-lfs-linux-gnu-strip

lfs@localhost:~$ ls /tools/share
info  man

lfs@localhost:~$ ls /tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/
bin  lib

lfs@localhost:~$ ls /tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/lib
ldscripts

lfs@localhost:~$ ls /tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ldscripts/
elf32_x86_64.x    elf32_x86_64.xdw  elf32_x86_64.xsw  elf_i386.xc   elf_i386.xr   elf_i386.xw    elf_iamcu.xdc  elf_iamcu.xsc  i386linux.xbn
elf32_x86_64.xbn  elf32_x86_64.xn   elf32_x86_64.xu   elf_i386.xd   elf_i386.xs   elf_iamcu.x    elf_iamcu.xdw  elf_iamcu.xsw  i386linux.xn
elf32_x86_64.xc   elf32_x86_64.xr   elf32_x86_64.xw   elf_i386.xdc  elf_i386.xsc  elf_iamcu.xbn  elf_iamcu.xn   elf_iamcu.xu   i386linux.xr
elf32_x86_64.xd   elf32_x86_64.xs   elf_i386.x        elf_i386.xdw  elf_i386.xsw  elf_iamcu.xc   elf_iamcu.xr   elf_iamcu.xw   i386linux.xu
elf32_x86_64.xdc  elf32_x86_64.xsc  elf_i386.xbn      elf_i386.xn   elf_i386.xu   elf_iamcu.xd   elf_iamcu.xs   i386linux.x

lfs@localhost:~$ ls /tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/bin
ar  as  ld  ld.bfd  nm  objcopy  objdump  ranlib  readelf  strip

lfs@localhost:~$ /tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ar --version
GNU ar (GNU Binutils) 2.29
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.

lfs@localhost:~$

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== [[#top|^]] Linux From Scratch - Chapter 6 ==

Back in September / early October Ted set aside work on LFS book 8.1, at the end of chapter 6 and just a bit into chapter 7.  Picking up the work again, there are some key steps for mounting partitions and their respective LFS 8.1 file systems detailed in chapter 6 sections 2.2 and 2.3.  The table of LFS chapter 6 contents is useful also, and given here for easier reference:

[http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/chapter06.html|LFS Chapter 6 TOC]



=== [[#top|^]] <!--LFS 8.1--> chapter 6.2 - preparing virtual kernel file systems ===

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Specific mount invocations mentioned in chapter 6.2.  From section 6.2.2 the first <code>mount</code> invocation:


   mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev


And from section 6.2.3 the remaining <code>mount</code> invocations:


   mount -vt devpts devpts $LFS/dev/pts -o gid=5,mode=620
   mount -vt proc proc $LFS/proc
   mount -vt sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys
   mount -vt tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/run




Ted's test of cut-and-paste text to permit running all five mount invocations with one text copy action . . . Ted noting the backslashes for line continuation don't work, and thinking on this syntax it makes sense that we need separate each mount invocation, as these are complete commands.  Otherwise the second `mount` is parsed by the shell as an rgument to the first appearance of `mount` . . .

<pre>

mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev ;\
mount -vt devpts devpts $LFS/dev/pts -o gid=5,mode=620 ;\
mount -vt proc proc $LFS/proc ;\
mount -vt sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys ;\
mount -vt tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/run

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=== [[#top|^]] <!--LFS 8.1--> chapter 6.4 - entering the chroot environment ===

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Taken directly from the chapter:

<pre>

chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i \
    HOME=/root                  \
    TERM="$TERM"                \
    PS1='\u:\w\$ '              \
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \
    /tools/bin/bash --login +h

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=== [[#top|^]] <!--LFS 8.1--> chapter 5.5 - gcc first pass ===

Chapter 5.5, building gcc first pass, took about sixty three (63) minutes:

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   .
   .
   .
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-7.2.0/build/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/libgcc'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-7.2.0/build/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/libgcc'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-7.2.0/build'

real    63m2.166s
user    53m41.453s
sys     3m11.888s
lfs@localhost:/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-7.2.0/build$

</pre>


Time to build glibc:

<pre>

   .
   .
   .
-lgcc  `i686-lfs-linux-gnu-gcc  --print-file-name=crtend.o` /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.26/build/csu/crtn.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.26/elf'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.26'

real    41m19.981s
user    32m31.794s
sys     5m49.582s

lfs@localhost:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.26/build$

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Linux From Scratch chapter 5 has thirty seven sections.  There was not a pressing need or a lot of details Ted found worth noting in most of these sections, the majority of which are dedicated to packages built in the first package building phase of LFS target system creation.  These packages are all built as the user 'lfs', and with the environment variable <code>$LFS</code> set, in our case Ted's case, to <code>/mnt/lfs</code>.

An important instruction to follow from the last section of chapter 5, section 5.37:


   " Note
 &nbsp;
    The commands in the remainder of this book must be performed while logged in as user root and no longer as user lfs. Also, double check that $LFS is set in root's environment."



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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.5 - create new system directories ===

Some captured terminal work, following steps in LFS 8.1 book, chapter 6.5:

<i>Figure x - creating some of first directories in new LFS system, following chroot . . .</i>

<pre>

I have no name!:/# ls
dev  lost+found  proc  run  sources  sys  tools

I have no name!:/# mkdir -pv /{bin,boot,etc/{opt,sysconfig},home,lib/firmware,mnt,opt}
mkdir: created directory '/bin'
mkdir: created directory '/boot'
mkdir: created directory '/etc'
mkdir: created directory '/etc/opt'
mkdir: created directory '/etc/sysconfig'
mkdir: created directory '/home'
mkdir: created directory '/lib'
mkdir: created directory '/lib/firmware'
mkdir: created directory '/mnt'
mkdir: created directory '/opt'

I have no name!:/# mkdir -pv /{media/{floppy,cdrom},sbin,srv,var}
mkdir: created directory '/media'
mkdir: created directory '/media/floppy'
mkdir: created directory '/media/cdrom'
mkdir: created directory '/sbin'
mkdir: created directory '/srv'
mkdir: created directory '/var'

I have no name!:/# install -dv -m 0750 /root
install: creating directory '/root'

I have no name!:/# install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp
install: creating directory '/tmp'
install: creating directory '/var/tmp'

I have no name!:/# mkdir -pv /usr/{,local}{bin,include,lib,sbin,src}
mkdir: created directory '/usr'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/bin'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/include'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/lib'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/sbin'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/src'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/localbin'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/localinclude'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/locallib'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/localsbin'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/localsrc'

I have no name!:/#

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LFS 8.1 book explains that the "I have no name!" results from there not yet being a <code>/etc/passwd</code> file in the new LFS system.  Continuing the terminal capture to illustrate bash shell's pattern expansion from curly braced text:


<pre>

I have no name!:/# mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}share/{color,dict,doc,info,locale,man}
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/color'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/dict'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/doc'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/info'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/locale'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/color'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/dict'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/doc'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/info'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/locale'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man'

I have no name!:/# mkdir -v  /usr/{,local/}share/{misc,terminfo,zoneinfo}
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/misc'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/terminfo'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/zoneinfo'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/misc'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/terminfo'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/zoneinfo'

I have no name!:/# mkdir -v  /usr/libexec
mkdir: created directory '/usr/libexec'

I have no name!:/# mkdir -pv /usr/{,local/}share/man/man{1..8}
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man1'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man2'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man3'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man4'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man5'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man6'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man7'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/share/man/man8'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man2'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man3'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man4'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man5'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man6'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man7'
mkdir: created directory '/usr/local/share/man/man8'
I have no name!:/#

I have no name!:/# mkdir -v /var/{log,mail,spool}
mkdir: created directory '/var/log'
mkdir: created directory '/var/mail'
mkdir: created directory '/var/spool'

I have no name!:/# ln -sv /run /var/run
'/var/run' -> '/run'

I have no name!:/# ln -sv /run/lock /var/lock
'/var/lock' -> '/run/lock'

I have no name!:/# mkdir -pv /var/{opt,cache,lib/{color,misc,locate},local}
mkdir: created directory '/var/opt'
mkdir: created directory '/var/cache'
mkdir: created directory '/var/lib'
mkdir: created directory '/var/lib/color'
mkdir: created directory '/var/lib/misc'
mkdir: created directory '/var/lib/locate'
mkdir: created directory '/var/local'

I have no name!:/#

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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.6 - create essential files and syminks ===
<br />
The purpose of the following symbolic links are explained in [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/createfiles.html LFS 8.1 book chapter 6.6]:


<pre>

I have no name!:/# # LFS book 8.1, chapter 6.6 . . .

I have no name!:/# ln -sv /tools/bin/{bash,cat,dd,echo,ln,pwd,rm,stty} /bin
'/bin/bash' -> '/tools/bin/bash'
'/bin/cat' -> '/tools/bin/cat'
'/bin/dd' -> '/tools/bin/dd'
'/bin/echo' -> '/tools/bin/echo'
'/bin/ln' -> '/tools/bin/ln'
'/bin/pwd' -> '/tools/bin/pwd'
'/bin/rm' -> '/tools/bin/rm'
'/bin/stty' -> '/tools/bin/stty'

I have no name!:/# ln -sv /tools/bin/{install,perl} /usr/bin
'/usr/bin/install' -> '/tools/bin/install'
'/usr/bin/perl' -> '/tools/bin/perl'

I have no name!:/# ln -sv /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so{,.1} /usr/lib
'/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so' -> '/tools/lib/libgcc_s.so'
'/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1' -> '/tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1'

I have no name!:/# ln -sv /tools/lib/libstdc++.{a,so{,.6}} /usr/lib
'/usr/lib/libstdc++.a' -> '/tools/lib/libstdc++.a'
'/usr/lib/libstdc++.so' -> '/tools/lib/libstdc++.so'
'/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6' -> '/tools/lib/libstdc++.so.6'

I have no name!:/# sed 's/tools/usr/' /tools/lib/libstdc++.la > /usr/lib/libstdc++.la

I have no name!:/# ln -sv bash /bin/sh
'/bin/sh' -> 'bash'

I have no name!:/#

</pre>



=== [[#top|^]] Uses of patch during LFS 8.1 chapter 5 ===

<br />
Ted noting that as of 2017 later summer, among the Linux From Scratch 8.1 packages there are six which download with associated patch files.  These patches are important to apply after un-archiving given package, and before preparing to compile given package:


<pre>

root:/sources# # Working in LFS 8.1 chapter 6.22, Installation of Pkg-config

root:/sources# ls *.patch
bash-4.4-upstream_fixes-1.patch   coreutils-8.27-i18n-1.patch  kbd-2.0.4-backspace-1.patch
bzip2-1.0.6-install_docs-1.patch  glibc-2.26-fhs-1.patch       sysvinit-2.88dsf-consolidated-1.patch

root:/sources#

</pre>


Uses of patch during LFS 8.1 chapter 5 system build steps:

<pre>

lfs@localhost:/mnt/lfs$ history | grep patch
   31  ls *patch
   36  vi glibc-2.26-fhs-1.patch
   45  patch -Np1 -i ../glibc-2.26-fhs-1.patch
  194  history | grep patch
  195  patch -Np1 -i ../bash-4.4-upstream_fixes-1.patch
  218  history | grep patch
  219  patch -Np1 -i ../bzip2-1.0.6-install_docs-1.patch
  228  patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-8.27-i18n-1.patch 
  364  unxz patch-2.7.5.tar.xz 
  365  tar xvf patch-2.7.5.tar 
  367  cd patch-2.7.5
  373  mv patch-2.7.5 z--set-aside/
  501  history | grep patch

lfs@localhost:/mnt/lfs$

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=== [[#top|^]] <i>&nbsp; &nbsp; Aside: &nbsp;LFS 8.1 chapter 6.9 - glibc-2.26 programs and libraries</i> ===

Really interesting section of the LFS 8.1 book here, chapter 6.9, which describes some of the utilities which come with GNU C library project.  Quoting this book these utilities include "catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig, ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, makedb, mtrace, nscd, pldd, sln, sotruss, sprof, tzselect, xtrace, zdump, and zic".


*  [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/glibc.html glibc-2.26 programs and libraries]


Here is a snippet of last lines of `make check` on glibc-2.26 package:


<pre>

scripts/merge-test-results.sh -t /sources/glibc-2.26/build/ subdir-tests.sum \
  . argp assert catgets conform crypt csu ctype debug dirent dlfcn elf gmon gnulib grp gshadow hesiod iconv iconvdata inet intl io libidn libio locale localedata login malloc manual math mathvec misc nis nptl nptl_db nscd nss po posix pwd resolv resource rt setjmp shadow signal socket stdio-common stdlib streams string sunrpc support sysvipc termios time timezone wcsmbs wctype \
  > /sources/glibc-2.26/build/tests.sum
XPASS: elf/tst-protected1a
XPASS: elf/tst-protected1b
UNSUPPORTED: io/tst-open-tmpfile
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-cond-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-condattr-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-mutex-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-mutexattr-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-rwlock-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-rwlockattr-printers
FAIL: posix/tst-getaddrinfo4
FAIL: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5
UNSUPPORTED: stdlib/tst-getrandom
Summary of test results:
      2 FAIL
   4108 PASS
      8 UNSUPPORTED
     29 XFAIL
      2 XPASS
make[1]: *** [Makefile:304: tests] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/glibc-2.26'
make: *** [Makefile:9: check] Error 2

real    116m41.448s
user    72m16.311s
sys     21m0.223s

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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.10 - adjusting toolchain, respecting new glibc ===

Chapter 6.10 -

<pre>

root:/sources/glibc-2.26/build# mv -v /tools/bin/{ld,ld-old}
'/tools/bin/ld' -> '/tools/bin/ld-old'

root:/sources/glibc-2.26/build# mv -v /tools/$(uname -m)-pc-linux-gnu/bin/{ld,ld-old}
'/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld' -> '/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld-old'

root:/sources/glibc-2.26/build# mv -v /tools/bin/{ld-new,ld}
'/tools/bin/ld-new' -> '/tools/bin/ld'

root:/sources/glibc-2.26/build# ln -sv /tools/bin/ld /tools/$(uname -m)-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld
'/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld' -> '/tools/bin/ld'

root:/sources/glibc-2.26/build#

</pre>



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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.16 - <font color="red">binutils-2.29 requires 4.2 GB disk space!</font> ===

<br />
Ok we've run into a too small partition for our root LFS file system.  7.6GB was not sufficient, though in an early chapter (chapter 2 or 3 of the LFS 8.1 book) Ted recalls there being word that a partition between five (5) and ten (10) GB would typically be sufficient to compile and install all Linux From Scratch programs.  Ted now looking to re-partitioning software options under Linux . . .

Ok, got the partition resized, and then the file system on the root LFS partition resized too.  Took a few notes and command line captures, which are in the wiki page titled [[resize_partition_and_file_system|Resize partition and file system]].

Moving on and building binutils-2.29, found two tests to fail during the mandatory `make -k check` step.  Failures noted here in case there are problems in later steps of the LFS 8.1 system build process:

<pre>

make  check-TESTS
make[5]: Entering directory '/sources/binutils-2.29/build/gold/testsuite'
make[6]: Entering directory '/sources/binutils-2.29/build/gold/testsuite'
PASS: incremental_test.sh
PASS: gc_comdat_test.sh
PASS: gc_tls_test.sh
PASS: gc_orphan_section_test.sh
PASS: pr14265.sh
PASS: pr20717.sh
PASS: gc_dynamic_list_test.sh
PASS: icf_test.sh
PASS: icf_keep_unique_test.sh
PASS: icf_safe_test.sh
PASS: icf_safe_pie_test.sh
FAIL: icf_safe_so_test.sh
PASS: final_layout.sh
PASS: text_section_grouping.sh
PASS: section_sorting_name.sh
PASS: icf_preemptible_functions_test.sh
PASS: icf_string_merge_test.sh
PASS: icf_sht_rel_addend_test.sh
PASS: merge_string_literals.sh
PASS: eh_test_2.sh
PASS: two_file_shared.sh
PASS: weak_plt.sh
PASS: copy_test_protected.sh
PASS: tls_pie_test.sh
PASS: i386_mov_to_lea.sh
PASS: file_in_many_sections_test.sh
FAIL: debug_msg.sh

</pre>


Ted noting that the second failure is noted in LFS 8.1 as a known failure, and doesn't break the overall process or target system building.



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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.20, gcc-7-2-.0 ===


Ted noting that after compiling gcc using the new LFS tools from chapter 5, a check that the new gcc of chapter 6 sees correct header files gives slightly lesser results than what's in chapter 6.20.  The book and chapter say to expect,


<pre>
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.0/include
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.0/include-fixed
 /usr/include
</pre>


But on our i686 host Ted obtains from the same post-gcc-build test:


<pre>
root:/sources/gcc-7.2.0/build# grep -B4 '^ /usr/include' dummy.log
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.0/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.0/include-fixed
 /usr/include
root:/sources/gcc-7.2.0/build#
</pre>


We're missing <code>/usr/local/include</code> among gcc's search paths.  Not sure why, nor whether this is a deal breaker going forward with the LFS 8.1 build - TMH


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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.21 ===

To better understand Posix regular expressions, Ted to return and look at differences between old and amended versions of bzip2 makefile here in LFS 8.1 chapter 6.21 . . .


<pre>

root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6# patch -Np1 -i ../bzip2-1.0.6-install_docs-1.patch
patching file Makefile
root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6# sed -i 's@\(ln -s -f \)$(PREFIX)/bin/@\1@' Makefile
root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6# cp Makefile makefile-before
root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6# sed -i "s@(PREFIX)/man@(PREFIX)/share/man@g" Makefile
root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6# diff makefile-before Makefile
Makefile            Makefile-libbz2_so  
root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6# diff makefile-before Makefile
75,76c75,76
<       if ( test ! -d $(PREFIX)/man ) ; then mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/man ; fi
<       if ( test ! -d $(PREFIX)/man/man1 ) ; then mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/man/man1 ; fi
---
>       if ( test ! -d $(PREFIX)/share/man ) ; then mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/share/man ; fi
>       if ( test ! -d $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1 ) ; then mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1 ; fi
87,88c87,88
<       cp -f bzip2.1 $(PREFIX)/man/man1
<       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzip2.1
---
>       cp -f bzip2.1 $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1
>       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzip2.1
103,110c103,110
<       cp -f bzgrep.1 bzmore.1 bzdiff.1 $(PREFIX)/man/man1
<       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzgrep.1
<       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzmore.1
<       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzdiff.1
<       echo ".so man1/bzgrep.1" > $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzegrep.1
<       echo ".so man1/bzgrep.1" > $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzfgrep.1
<       echo ".so man1/bzmore.1" > $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzless.1
<       echo ".so man1/bzdiff.1" > $(PREFIX)/man/man1/bzcmp.1
---
>       cp -f bzgrep.1 bzmore.1 bzdiff.1 $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1
>       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzgrep.1
>       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzmore.1
>       chmod a+r $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzdiff.1
>       echo ".so man1/bzgrep.1" > $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzegrep.1
>       echo ".so man1/bzgrep.1" > $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzfgrep.1
>       echo ".so man1/bzmore.1" > $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzless.1
>       echo ".so man1/bzdiff.1" > $(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/bzcmp.1
root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.6#

</pre>



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=== [[#top|^]] LFS 8.1 chapter 6.28, shadow-4.5 . . . ===


Some notes on configuring <code>shadow-4.5</code>.  The following snippet is a summary report from running <code>`./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-group-name-max-length=32 --with-libcrack`</code> in the <code>shadow-4.5</code> sources directory:
<pre>

config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile

shadow will be compiled with the following features:

        auditing support:               no
        CrackLib support:               yes
        PAM support:                    no
        SELinux support:                no
        ACL support:                    yes
        Extended Attributes support:    yes
        tcb support (incomplete):       no
        shadow group support:           yes
        S/Key support:                  no
        SHA passwords encryption:       yes
        nscd support:                   yes
        subordinate IDs support:        yes

root:/sources/shadow-4.5#

</pre>




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=== [[#top|^]] standing as of chapter 6.32 - flex-2.6.4 . . . ===

<br />
2017-10-04 - Ted noting that there are mixed ownerships on the most recently installed packages of the LFS build underway and documented here . . .


<pre>

root@localhost:/mnt/lfs/sources/z--set-aside# ls -l
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 16 root  root    4096 Sep 29 11:04 acl-2.2.52
drwxr-xr-x 16 root  root    4096 Sep 29 10:18 attr-2.4.47
drwxr-xr-x 19 root  root    4096 Sep 27 14:53 binutils-2.29
drwxr-xr-x 14   505 dialout 4096 Sep 29 14:03 bison-3.0.4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  root    4096 Sep 29 09:37 bzip2-1.0.6
drwxrwxr-x  9   500     500 4096 Sep 29 13:16 cracklib-2.9.6
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  root    4096 Sep 22 13:08 file-5.31
drwxrwxr-x 11 veris veris   4096 Sep 29 14:09 flex-2.6.4
drwxrwxr-x 70 root  root    4096 Sep 22 10:48 glibc-2.26
drwxr-xr-x 16 lfs   root    4096 Sep 28 07:10 gmp-6.1.2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  root    4096 Sep 29 13:58 iana-etc-2.30
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  root    4096 Sep 29 11:07 libcap-2.25
drwxrwxr-x 10 root  root    4096 Sep 22 13:15 m4-1.4.18
drwxr-xr-x 11 veris veris   4096 Jul 13 22:28 man-pages-4.12
drwxr-xr-x  6 lfs   lfs     4096 Sep 28 07:36 mpc-1.0.3
drwxr-xr-x  9 veris veris   4096 Sep 28 07:26 mpfr-3.1.5
drwxr-xr-x 17 lfs       999 4096 Sep 29 10:12 ncurses-6.0
drwxrwxr-x  6 veris veris   4096 Sep 29 10:02 pkg-config-0.29.2
drwxr-xr-x  8 veris veris   4096 Sep 29 13:56 psmisc-23.1
drwxrwxr-x  6   286 dialout 4096 Sep 22 13:10 readline-7.0
drwxr-xr-x 10 root  root    4096 Sep 29 11:19 sed-4.4
drwxrwxr-x 10 veris veris   4096 Sep 29 13:28 shadow-4.5
drwxr-xr-x 14   501 dialout 4096 Sep 22 13:06 zlib-1.2.11

root@localhost:/mnt/lfs/sources/z--set-aside#

</pre>


Was simply looking for latest package compiled and installed, following LFS book 8.1.  But instead found permissions to differ.  Perhaps some of the installed packages reflect those originally downloaded by the 'lfs' user.  For some reason it was necessary to download some packages again after remounting the LFS partition and resuming work following a power-down event over two days' time . . .


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=== [[#top|^]] chapter 6.35 - libtool-2.4.6 ===

<br />
Tail end of results from building libtool-2.4.6:


<pre>

   .
   .
   .
sysroot tests

166: -L=.../lib -l                                   skipped (sysroot.at:203)
167: -L SYSROOT/.../lib -l                           skipped (sysroot.at:204)
168: SYSROOT/.../*.la                                skipped (sysroot.at:205)

Libtool stress test.

169: Link option thorough search test                ok
170: Run tests with low max_cmd_len                  ok

## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 140 tests were run,
65 failed (60 expected failures).
30 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might help:

   To: <bug-libtool@gnu.org>
   Subject: [GNU Libtool 2.4.6] testsuite: 123 124 125 126 130 failed

You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.  Its output may
be found below `tests/testsuite.dir'.

make[3]: *** [Makefile:2459: check-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/sources/libtool-2.4.6'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1897: check-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/libtool-2.4.6'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1606: check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/libtool-2.4.6'
make: *** [Makefile:1899: check] Error 2
root:/sources/libtool-2.4.6#

</pre>



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=== [[#top|^]] chapter 6.40 - perl-5.26.0 ===

<br />
Tail output from running `make -k test` on perl-5.26.0:


<pre>

lib/utf8 ....................................................... ok
lib/vars ....................................................... ok
lib/vars_carp .................................................. ok
lib/vmsish ..................................................... ok
lib/warnings ................................................... ok
Failed 9 tests out of 2452, 99.63% okay.
        ../cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/t/01version.t
        ../cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/t/02zlib.t
        ../cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/t/18lvalue.t
        ../cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/t/19nonpv.t
        ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-01version.t
        ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-03zlib-v1.t
        ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-06gzsetp.t
        ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-08encoding.t
        ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-14gzopen.t
### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of
### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce.
### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test".
### You have a good chance to get more information by running
###   ./perl harness
### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded.
### You may have to set your dynamic library search path,
### LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to point to the build directory:
###   setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl harness
###   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl harness
###   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl harness
### for csh-style shells, like tcsh; or for traditional/modern
### Bourne-style shells, like bash, ksh, and zsh, respectively.
Elapsed: 2050 sec
u=48.13  s=8.22  cu=1549.23  cs=94.46  scripts=2452  tests=1243855
make: *** [makefile:792: test] Error 1

real    34m40.210s
user    27m2.669s
sys     1m45.343s
root:/sources/perl-5.26.0# 

</pre>



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=== [[#top|^]] chapter 6.43 - autoconf-2.69 ===

<bv />
Tail end of output from running `make check` on autoconf-2.69 project build:


<pre>

   .
   .
   .

500: AC_HAVE_LIBRARY                                 ok

Compatibility with other tools.

501: Libtool                                         FAILED (foreign.at:61)
502: shtool                                          ok

Autoscan.

503: autoscan                                        FAILED (autoscan.at:44)

## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 450 tests were run,
6 failed (4 expected failures).
53 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might help:

   To: <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>
   Subject: [GNU Autoconf 2.69] testsuite: 501 503 failed

You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.  Its output may
be found below `tests/testsuite.dir'.

make[3]: *** [Makefile:596: check-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/sources/autoconf-2.69/tests'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:411: check-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/autoconf-2.69/tests'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:357: check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/autoconf-2.69'
make: *** [Makefile:665: check] Error 2

real    25m15.337s
user    12m47.136s
sys     2m59.419s
root:/sources/autoconf-2.69# 

</pre>



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=== [[#top|^]] chapter 6.44 - automake-1.15 ===

<br />
Tail of test results testing automake-1.15:
<pre>

   .
   .
   .
PASS: t/depcomp-lt-auto.tap 80 - [absolute VPATH, nostatic] simple make
PASS: t/depcomp-lt-auto.tap 81 - [absolute VPATH, nostatic] clean & rebuild
PASS: t/depcomp-lt-auto.tap 82 - [absolute VPATH, nostatic] generated Plo files look correct
PASS: t/depcomp-lt-auto.tap 83 - [absolute VPATH, nostatic] dependency tracking works
PASS: t/depcomp-lt-auto.tap 84 - [absolute VPATH, nostatic] make distclean
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.15.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 2901
# PASS:  2704
# SKIP:  154
# XFAIL: 41
# FAIL:  2
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
============================================================================
make[2]: *** [Makefile:3029: test-suite.log] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/automake-1.15.1'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:3137: check-TESTS] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/automake-1.15.1'
make: *** [Makefile:3368: check-am] Error 2

real    116m14.466s
user    103m28.428s
sys     18m55.411s
root:/sources/automake-1.15.1#
</pre>


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=== [[#top|^]] chapter 6.49 e2fsprogs-1.43.5 ===

<br />
Three tests failing in just-built <code>e2fsprogs</code> . . .


<pre>

. . .
m_offset: mke2fs with offset option (-E offset=N): ok
f_invalid_bad_inode: check for bogus bad inode: ok
f_h_badnode: hash directory with bad HTREE nodes: ok
337 tests succeeded     3 tests failed
Tests failed: f_del_dup_quota f_quota f_quota_extent_opt 
make[1]: *** [Makefile:367: test_post] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.43.5/build/tests'
make: *** [Makefile:394: check-recursive] Error 1
root:/sources/e2fsprogs-1.43.5/build#

</pre>

.....



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=== [[#top|^]] next LFS chapter . . . ===




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